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UNITED STATES PATENT Urrrce,

HELEN G. WILBER, OF FAYETTE, MICHIGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,875, dated July 29,1884.

Application filed November 15, 1883.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HELEN G. XVILBER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Fayette, in the county of Delta and State of Michigan,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Medical Compounds;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My discovery relates to external remediessuch as salves or ointments;and it consists in a salve made of beeswax, balsamfir, muttontallow,castile-soap, and pine-tar, mixed and prepared in the following manner,viz: Equal parts of beeswax, balsam-fir, (Terebinthina Crmadensia)mutton-tallow, and castile-soap are melted together, whereupon pine-taris added in an amount equal to onehalf the amount of the otheringredients together.

For salt-rheum, use the salve every night and morning. For removingwarts it is to be applied every night; and for burns, Wounds, or oldsores the salve is to be applied when the wound or sore is dressed.

I am aware that the several ingredients of this salve have been usedseparately and together in salves and ointments; but I am not (Nospecimens! aware that they have been used in the exact proportions inwhich I use them, and which attain superior 1'esults; wherefore I do notwish to claim a salve composed of these ingredients, broadly.

I am also aware that in Patent No. 80,353, granted on the 28th of July,1808, to Richard Jonas, nearly all the ingredients used in my compoundare used; and I only wish to claim the compound consisting-of alltheingredients in their exact proportions, whereby I obtain superiorresults.

What I claim is The herein-described medical compound for external use,composed of equal parts of bees- Wax,balsamfir, (Terebint/zinaCanadensis,) mutton-tallow, and castile-soap, melted together and mixedwith pine-tar to the amount of onehalf of the entire amount of the otheringredicuts, as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HELEi C. \VILBER.

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